Hi, > > Are you sure? http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/ claims it produces > > optimized x86 code, which could be a problem on other archs. > > TCC does some simple local optimizations (AIUI, some peephole > optimization, and simple intra-statement linear register allocation), > but calling it an "optimizing" compiler in the GCC sense would be too much. > > The TCC architecture would require significant changes if one wanted to > make it a true optimizing compiler. > > However, TCC-compiled code is likely much faster than anything that the > interpreters (Python, Perl) produce from equivalent code.
tcc has a very different scope to binfmtc in that it tries to be a compiler. binfmtc is just an interface, and currently supports c, c++, java, assembler, fortran and pascal; and can be extended if the language can have a compiled output in a sane way (I'm currently eyeing bison; flex looks a bit difficult). Considering that there doesn't seem to be a similar project, I'm going to upload the package. regards, junichi -- Junichi Uekawa, Debian Developer http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/ 183A 70FC 4732 1B87 57A5 CE82 D837 7D4E E81E 55C1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]